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  • Dan54D Offline
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    Anyway feeling better now, surprising what a couple of days will do! Just a note to @MiketheSnow , mate your country Wales I loved more can I say. I think watching tests at Welsh pubs were brilliant, I think one of reasons I enjoyed it ,I found I met a lot of people that loved rugby as much as myself (and many on here) . A real deep passion for the game, not screaming about how team is going, just seemed a little sad at the problems the game having there.. Found the people real warm and welcoming too.I will add wandering into Cardiff Arms Park was a buzz for me, someone of my age, it still ranks as one of the great rugby stadiums historically, and will always remember hearing crowds singing there etc when I listened to games as a kid.
    I also say the highlight of whole trip may just of been I went to the Rugby School , the place where it all started. Women in the shop there took me over to their museum and gave me a bit of tour as she seemed to think I was a rugby nutter. Also got a pic of me on their field, a big nono generally, as you not meant to even be in school grounds if not a pupil etc, she just said tell security man I said it ok. You can't even just go in and watch a game of rugby there when they playing, as it for the school only!

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    @Dan54 said in Grumpy Old Man:

    You can't even just go in and watch a game of rugby there when they playing, as it for the school only!

    Because private school piston wristed gibbons with buck teeth and inbreeding. That's why.

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    @NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Dan54 said in Grumpy Old Man:

    You can't even just go in and watch a game of rugby there when they playing, as it for the school only!

    Because private school piston wristed gibbons with buck teeth and inbreeding. That's why.

    <said in Darth Vader voice>

    the bitterness is strong in this one.

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    @Dan54 said in Grumpy Old Man:

    I also say the highlight of whole trip may just of been I went to the Rugby School , the place where it all started. Women in the shop there took me over to their museum and gave me a bit of tour as she seemed to think I was a rugby nutter. Also got a pic of me on their field, a big nono generally, as you not meant to even be in school grounds if not a pupil etc, she just said tell security man I said it ok. You can't even just go in and watch a game of rugby there when they playing, as it for the school only!

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    Even played there.

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    Music between overs at a Test Match.

    Fuck. Off.

    If your attention span is so low you need entertainment for 15 seconds, piss off back to T20 shits and giggles.

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    @Catogrande said in Grumpy Old Man:

    the bitterness is strong in this one.

    I've noticed no one seems to visit official Empire taverns for serious drinking. I question the Empire's longevity, deathstar or not.

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    @nzzp said in Grumpy Old Man:

    Music between overs at a Test Match.

    Fuck. Off.

    If your attention span is so low you need entertainment for 15 seconds, piss off back to T20 shits and giggles.

    this! the quiet hum of a test match crowd is one of its absolute joys, just fuck off back to fucking up rugby with your shit music

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    @Dodge or a trumpet!

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    fluffybunnies at work who come to you a fortnight out from Christmas, saying they've got a change needing sign-off by January 17. FMD pal I'm on leave for three weeks during that period. And I'm literally the only one who can do that work.

    And the files are wrong in 20% of cases, compared to my database...

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    @NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:

    fluffybunnies at work who come to you a fortnight out from Christmas, saying they've got a change needing sign-off by January 17. FMD pal I'm on leave for three weeks during that period. And I'm literally the only one who can do that work.

    And the files are wrong in 20% of cases, compared to my database...

    That's the problem for you IT nerds isn't it? You control the systems and own the world except you are dependent upon illiterates to put in the actual data. And we're shit at it.

    LOOOOOOOOOL!

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    @Catogrande said in Grumpy Old Man:

    That's the problem for you IT nerds isn't it? You control the systems and own the world except you are dependent upon illiterates to put in the actual data. And we're shit at it.

    LOOOOOOOOOL!

    The data is fine - it is the way it is organised in terms of column order 🙂 so this is, in fact, an IT fuckup, but not my fuckup.

    The actual issue is middle managers who have no fucking idea how to keep a project on time and on budget, or communicate to critical stakeholders (i.e. me) when they're doing system changes.

    This was supposed to be completed a month ago. I got one email for the kick-off back in April and nothing since.

    Dicks.

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    @NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:

    middle managers who have no fucking idea

    Sorry for repeating myself.

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    @NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Catogrande said in Grumpy Old Man:

    That's the problem for you IT nerds isn't it? You control the systems and own the world except you are dependent upon illiterates to put in the actual data. And we're shit at it.

    LOOOOOOOOOL!

    The data is fine - it is the way it is organised in terms of column order 🙂 so this is, in fact, an IT fuckup, but not my fuckup.

    The actual issue is middle managers who have no fucking idea how to keep a project on time and on budget, or communicate to critical stakeholders (i.e. me) when they're doing system changes.

    This was supposed to be completed a month ago. I got one email for the kick-off back in April and nothing since.

    Dicks.

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    The important thing is your governance, project managers, change managers and PMO are earning their coin...

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    @antipodean And getting their bonuses like everyone else.

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    Don't forget consultants.

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    @NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Catogrande said in Grumpy Old Man:

    That's the problem for you IT nerds isn't it? You control the systems and own the world except you are dependent upon illiterates to put in the actual data. And we're shit at it.

    LOOOOOOOOOL!

    The data is fine - it is the way it is organised in terms of column order 🙂 so this is, in fact, an IT fuckup, but not my fuckup.

    The actual issue is middle managers who have no fucking idea how to keep a project on time and on budget, or communicate to critical stakeholders (i.e. me) when they're doing system changes.

    This was supposed to be completed a month ago. I got one email for the kick-off back in April and nothing since.

    Dicks.

    Do you remember when Bruce Lee was fighting Chuck Norris in Enter the Dragon?

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  • NTAN Offline
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    @Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:

    Don't forget consultants.

    First against the wall when the revolution comes. Right next to lawyers

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    @NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:

    Don't forget consultants.

    First against the wall when the revolution comes. Right next to lawyers

    There'll be no one left to read the help manual back to you.

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  • NTAN Offline
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    @Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:

    Don't forget consultants.

    First against the wall when the revolution comes. Right next to lawyers

    There'll be no one left to read the help manual back to you.

    What will we do without meetings and billable hours?

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  • antipodeanA Offline
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    I'd have thought NTA was more inspired

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